EMass Division 1 Track: Warrior girls defend their crown

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May 27, 2007 at 12:01 AMMay 27, 2007 at 2:54 PM

Keith Pearson/Daily News correspondent

Heading into next weekend's All-State meet in Holyoke, the Lincoln-Sudbury girls track and field team is feeling all right after a solid all-around performance at the MIAA Div. 1 East Track & Field Championships at Cawley Stadium.

The Warriors successfully defended their title from a year ago, winning with 82 points, 25 more than runner-up Newton South.

"To come back to this meet and surprisingly rack up 82 points is icing on the cake," Lincoln-Sudbury coach Mel Gonsalves said. "Things happened today not just on the track today to score 82 points."

Lincoln-Sudbury rolled to the win by placing in the top three of nine events, getting wins from junior Dana Jamieson in the 400 in 56.21 seconds, junior Molly Binder in the 800, sophomore Sophia Romeri in the pole vault and the 4x400 relay team of Binder, Emily Mepham (third in 2-mile), Olivia Reed and Jamieson.

Jamieson also anchored the 4x400 with a blistering 55-second split, according to Gonsalves' clock. As she was waiting for Reed to deliver the baton, top-seeded Bridgewater-Raynham dropped their baton, putting Jamieson and the Warriors in front for the win.

"This whole day was a huge success," Jamieson said. "I was a little skeptical of what I was able to do. My coaches had a lot of faith in me. They told me I could run these crazy times that I never thought I could run and I just said, 'Dana, go out and have fun with it, just be yourself, go out and have fun.' I did and it definitely paid off."

Jamieson was delivered a shock when B-R could not complete the final baton pass cleanly.

"I couldn't believe it, I was just mentally prepared to go after (B-R anchor Mary Zolga)," Jamieson said. "I just got out and I was wondering where B-R went. It was really unfortunate because they are a really good team and I was looking forward to competing with them, but stuff happens."

Jamieson and Romeri added second place finishes in jumping competitions, Jamieson in the long jump and Romeri in the triple jump, providing 18 points each individually.

Senior Jackie Jarmulowicz gave the Warriors six points in the throwing events with a fourth in the javelin and a fifth in the discus.

On the boys side of the meet, Framingham high jumper Jordan Maddocks won the high jump with his best leap of the spring season, clearly 6 feet, 8 inches despite attending prom activities the night before.

"I didn't know if I was going to do well or not, I had my prom last night," Maddocks said. "I didn't really get any sleep."

After making some footwork adjustments following his initial warm-up jumps, Maddocks cleared 5-11 by a foot, according to his estimation.

"That built up my confidence for the rest of the meet," said the Brown University-bound senior.

He cleared 6-6 on his final attempt and cleared 6-8 on his first attempt.

Having cleared 6-8, Maddocks has set the bar even higher for next week's All-States.

"Six-feet-10 would be a new school record and it might be a new league record," said Maddocks who cleared 6-9 during the winter.

Lincoln-Sudbury finished eighth with 33.33 points behind a strong showing in the sprints. Senior Marcus West took third in the 100 in 11.17 seconds and junior Bryant Wang grabbed third in the 110 high hurdles in 14.86. The 4x100 took third and 4x400 took fourth.

Acton-Boxboro senior Ben Cunkleman took second place in the 2-mile with a run of 9:42:06.

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